Why only British style crosswords?
If you knew there was a difference in styles, then you must know quite a lot about crosswords already. For those who didn’t, a word of explanation is necessary: There is a world of difference between the British cryptic crossword and its American cousin. The crossword was an American invention, but we Brits have never understood the American maxim “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” and had to come up with our own version of highly structured crossword. This style requires that solutions are real dictionary words and phrases. This might not be the case in the American crossword, where the open style of pattern sometimes requires that the solution might only loosely be described as a word or phrase. Thus it is rare for initials to appear as a solution in a British cryptic, but not so rare in the American style. American crosswords can be cryptic, but the clues are not always strictly ‘two part’ as is usual in British crosswords. eg, the clue “Henry, Elizabeth and Mary from Stroud” gives th
